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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edward A. Rouse

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 23 year old farmer from Nixburg, AL, he enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and returned to duty on 29 October 1862. He was away from his company on detail as a teamster by July 1863, possibly captured at Gettysburg, PA, and a prisoner, at least briefly, at Fort Delaware by 7 July 1863. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital on 28 September and on furlough through October but was back with his company at Mine Run, VA on 27 November 1863 and on to Davis' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1838 in AL

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32899]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32900]

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